During his fellowship term, Simon investigated the object through various "stagings"—the auction, the experiment, the tag, the classified advertisement, the forwarded message—in order to examine historical and contemporary notions of the object as commodity.

Simon was, until recently, director and chief curator at MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam (2012–2017). He is the co-founding editor of the Tel Aviv- Jaffa based Maayan publishing, and was a 2011–2013 Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and a 2017 fellow at the Akademie de Künste der Welt, Cologne. Author of Neomaterialism (Sternberg Press, 2013), and editor of United States of Palestine-Israel (Sternberg Press, 2011), Ruti Sela: For The Record (Archive Books, 2015), and Communists Anonymous (with Ingo Niermann, Sternberg Press, 2017). Recent curatorial projects include Factory Fetish (Westspace, Melbourne, with Liang Luscombe), Roee Rosen: Group Exhibition (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, with Gilad Melzer), The Kids Want Communism (MoBY and Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, 2016–2017), and Second Nature (International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, 2017). Simon holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Below, download the Introduction to Simon's Neomaterialism, 2013, Sternberg Press. Simon worked on aspects of this book during his fellowship.